Installing Ivanti Standalone Sentry ISO on a VM

The following provide the steps for installing the Ivanti Standalone Sentry ISO on a virtual machine (VM):

Installing Ivanti Standalone Sentry ISO on VMware

Installing Ivanti Standalone Sentry ISO on Hyper-V

Installing Ivanti Standalone Sentry ISO on VMware

This section provides instructions on how to download Ivanti Standalone Sentry ISO to VMware.

Procedure 

1. Place the ISO distribution in an existing vSphere datastore.
2. In the vSphere Client, select the Edit Settings option for the VM you created.

Figure 1. Virtual machine in VMware

3. Select Datastore ISO File.
4. Click Browse to select the Sentry ISO distribution.
5. Make sure the “Connected” and “Connect at power on” options in the Virtual Machine Properties screen are selected.
6. Select Host Device.
7. Click OK.
8. Power on the VM.

The VM automatically installs and reloads after a few minutes, and the installation program starts. See Using the setup wizard to complete Ivanti Standalone Sentry installation for the next steps.

Installing Ivanti Standalone Sentry ISO on Hyper-V

This section provides instructions on how to download the Ivanti Standalone Sentry ISO to Hyper-V.

Procedure 

1. Log into your Windows server.
2. From a web browser, download the ISO to the VM datastore.

Figure 2. Virtual machine in Hyper-V manager

3. In the Hyper-V Manager, select the Virtual Machine (VM) and shut it down by right clicking on the VM and clicking Shutdown.
4. Right-click on the VM and click on Settings.

Figure 3. Location of the image file

5. Click on DVD Drive and select Image file.
6. Enter the location of the image file you downloaded in From a web browser, download the ISO to the VM datastore.
7. Right-click on the VM and click on Start to start the installation.

See Using the setup wizard to complete Ivanti Standalone Sentry installation for the next steps.